With today's launch of the Battlefield 3 early beta, AMD has released a preview build of their Catalyst 11.10 drivers specifically for Battlefield 3. The Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver improves BF3 performance on the Radeon HD 5000 and 6000 series for both single-GPU and CrossFire configurations, and adds support for 5x1 Eyefinity. The full release notes are below:

Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series for single GPU configurations

Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

Enables support for Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the CrossfireX, GPU Overdrive, and Information Center pages.

Man, everytime I see driver improvements for 5x1 portrait I wonder how much GPU power a setup like that needs. I have a 3x1 landscape setup that I have to turn down many settings on a Radeon 5970. I feel like I might need two 6990's (or at least 3 6970's) to run at full spec, and in that case, would it still be enough power to go to 5x1? DX11 crushes cards.Reply

I just built an Eyefinity 6 setup using a Powercolor 6870 w/ 6 displayport outputs. 2-27inch Samsungs and 4 24 inch Viewsonics, All 1080P. Also installed Driver3 which came free with the card and it performed without issue. Regular desktop interaction has no noticeable difference. Reply

Driver 3 must be some piece of technology then hahah...a 6870 is not a card that can render 6x 1920x1200 in normal games I´m afraid...I wouldn´t even try usking 3 screens because a 6870 suffers from lack of VRam at 1 display already...

loose the card and buy a 6950 2gb for eyefinity or a next gen card for decent eyefinity 6. Reply